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Awesome Holiday Entertaining Appetizer

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  I've "discovered" a (I think) fun and easy holiday appetizer- great for taking to parties.
  
  
  
  We call them Brie Bites.
  
  
  
  Ingredients:
  
  Store-bought puff pastry dough
  
  Brie, cubed
  
  Whatever you think will taste good
  
  
  
  Defrost the frozen dough according to directions on package (usually sitting out on the counter for about 30 minutes).
  
  
  
  Roll dough out to about a 14in square, or so.
  
  
  
  Place cubed brie on top of 1/2 of the pastry, spacing about 1in apart.
  
  
  
  Top brie with other stuff.
  
  
  
  Fold second 1/2 of pastry over the top of the brie. Use a pizza cutter to slice through both pieces of pastry to form little square pockets around the filling. Pinch the edges together and place each pocket on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 for about 13 minutes (or until pastry puffs and turns golden on the top).
  
  
  
  Other ingredients I've used have been (all on top of brie):
  
  
  
  Pear, almond, and cinnamon
  
  Persimmon, pecan, and cloves and or cinnamon
  
  Dried cranberry and almond
  
  Cured Turkey sausage and marinated cherry bells
  
  Cured turkey sausage and pear
  
  Green olive with pimento and oregano
  
  Sun dried tomato and basil
  
  
  
  Serve with really cold, dry white wine. Or Champagne. Mmmmmmm....
  
  
  
  It's fun to just try lots of different things- whatever combinations you think might work. I've also made these without brie and with cooked cinnamon apples instead- sort of like apple pie bites.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by heels on 27th November 2007
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  oooh this sounds SO GOOD!!! i bet would be good with pecans or walnuts and caramel on top too!!! i am all about the sweet on my brie!!
  
  
  
  ok now i am hungry
  
  
  
  Mini quiche things
  
  
  
  take a can of those crecent rolls
  
  roll out into one square (rolling the perferations together)
  
  cut out circles with a small cookie cutter
  
  place each into a minimuffin pan (like a crust)
  
  in a bowl mix real or fake (fake is easier!) eggs, spinach (frozen, thawed) and cheese (chedder, mozz, feta, whatever!) and any thing you like in your egg mixture (i sometimes add bacos!)
  
  pour into each minimuffin cup w/ crust
  
  bake at 350 until golden! (i can't remember, 10 minutes?)
  
  
  
  very yummy and much better tasting than the frozen ones...

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Kate on 28th November 2007
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  I'm TOTALLY using that one next week! Thanks!!

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by heels on 28th November 2007
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  Ok here is one that my mom always makes on Christmas Eve......
  
  
  
  we make mini meatballs
  
  w/ turkey, hamburger, venison..........brown
  
  
  
  1 jar grape jelly
  
  
  
  2 bottles of chili sauce sometimes I also use cocktail sauce
  
  
  
  put in crockpot and cook it makes a great dish
  
  
  
  everyone loves them.
  
  
  
  I am going to make both the Brie and the Mini Quiches to take to my brothers for Christmas Eve.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Kim Begnaud on 28th November 2007
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  Heels, I do something similar with puff pastry and chicken-apple sausage (but I laboriously cut it into squares and wrap them into bundles -- I'm doing it your way from now on!)
  
  
  
  4 links chicken-apple sausage, cooked but cold
  
  Dijon mustard
  
  2 packages pre-made frozen puff pastry, thawed
  
  
  
  Cut the sausage into thin slices (or "coins". Roll out the puff pastry and cut into 16 squares. Using the back of a spoon, place a very small dollop of mustard on each sausage coin, wrap in puff pastry, and place seam-side down on a parchment-lined baking tray.
  
  
  
  Bake at whatever temperature the pastry package says until they're puffy and lightly golden. Serve with more mustard for dipping.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Lylah M. Alphonse on 28th November 2007